The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain
a wide variety of material related to World War I, including
photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and
sound recordings. This guide compiles links to World War I
resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In
addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites
focusing on World War I and a bibliography containing selections
for both general and younger readers.

The Nation's Forum Collection from the Motion Picture,
Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division consists of
fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders
at the turn of the century. The speeches focus on issues
and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent
presidential election of 1920.

These life histories were written by staff of the Folklore
Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works
Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from
1936-1940. The Library of Congress Manuscript Division
collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work
of over 300 writers from 24 states. Search
on the phrase "World War" in order to locate
life histories that mention World War I.

This collection displays the variety and diversity of
Sunday pictorial sections published in two prominent U.S.
newspapers: the New York Times
and New York Tribune. It also
includes a book, The War of the Nations:
Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings.
The images in the collection document events of
World War I and popular American culture of that era.

This collection presents the complete seventy-one-week
run of the World War I edition of the newspaper The
Stars and Stripes. Published in France by the United
States Army from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, the
eight-page weekly featured news, poetry, cartoons, and
sports coverage, with a staff that included journalists
Alexander Woollcott, Harold Wallace Ross and Grantland
Rice. Written by and for the American soldiers at the
war front, the paper offers a unique perspective from
which to examine the wartime experience.

This collection features 104 films that record events
in Theodore Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American
War in 1898 to his death in 1919. Contains films of Roosevelt
performing various public functions in support of the
war effort during World
War I. Also, includes a film of Roosevelt's
sons' regiments in France during the war.

In addition, the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room has created a series of topics guides to the newspapers included in Chronicling America, including a number of guides related to World War I.

John J. Pershing, military commander whose brilliant
career earned him the title General of the Armies of the
United States, died on July 15, 1948. General Pershing
was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces
to Europe in World War I.

The Veterans History Project collects and preserves stories
of wartime service from World
War I to the present. This site provides information
about how to participate in the project, a database of
participating veterans, and digitized materials from the
collection. It also contains a selected
bibliography of print and online resources related
to World War I.

This site is a virtual reference work on the First World War. The multi-perspective, open-access knowledge base is the result of an international collaborative project involving more than 1,000 authors, editors, and partners from over fifty countries.